[Bad_Bud]

Hi friends, I am wondering if there are constants (or at least an explanation) for the values returned by Ham_Classify. I haven't been able to find it. As far as I can tell, 0 is some non-player entity, 2 is a player entity. That's as far as I know. More knowledge would be helpful.

[klippy]

I believe Classify's implementation is very game-dependent, different games may have completely different entity classifications.

What game are you interested in? And also, what are you trying to achieve with it?

[NiHiLaNTh]

These are for CS (minus CLASS_VEHICLE for Half-Life)

#define CLASS_NONE 0
#define CLASS_MACHINE 1
#define CLASS_PLAYER 2
#define CLASS_HUMAN_PASSIVE 3
#define CLASS_HUMAN_MILITARY 4
#define CLASS_ALIEN_MILITARY 5
#define CLASS_ALIEN_PASSIVE 6
#define CLASS_ALIEN_MONSTER 7
#define CLASS_ALIEN_PREY 8
#define CLASS_ALIEN_PREDATOR 9
#define CLASS_INSECT 10
#define CLASS_PLAYER_ALLY 11
#define CLASS_PLAYER_BIOWEAPON 12
#define CLASS_ALIEN_BIOWEAPON 13
#define CLASS_VEHICLE 14
#define CLASS_BARNACLE 99

[Bad_Bud]

This is for The Specialists in particular.

I check a lot of entities from time to time and I was wondering if there was a useful application of Ham_Classify rather than checking classnames. I was also wondering if I could use it in a HamTakedamage to see if the damage source was non-player (it would be more readable to an inexperienced third party for something like AttackerClassify != Player rather than attacker != 0 && attacker <= maxplayers).

So far it seems like it's probably something along the lines of... Classify 0 is world and brush entities, 1 is maybe a point entity, and 2 is players.

[Bad_Bud]

Originally Posted by NiHiLaNTh These are for CS (minus CLASS_VEHICLE for Half-Life) #define CLASS_NONE 0 #define CLASS_MACHINE 1 #define CLASS_PLAYER 2 #define CLASS_HUMAN_PASSIVE 3 #define CLASS_HUMAN_MILITARY 4 #define CLASS_ALIEN_MILITARY 5 #define CLASS_ALIEN_PASSIVE 6 #define CLASS_ALIEN_MONSTER 7 #define CLASS_ALIEN_PREY 8 #define CLASS_ALIEN_PREDATOR 9 #define CLASS_INSECT 10 #define CLASS_PLAYER_ALLY 11 #define CLASS_PLAYER_BIOWEAPON 12 #define CLASS_ALIEN_BIOWEAPON 13 #define CLASS_VEHICLE 14 #define CLASS_BARNACLE 99

Where did you get this from, or did you have to guess?

[NiHiLaNTh]

Those constants are located inside cbase.h.

[Bad_Bud]

Would they potentially be different on a mod to mod basis as KliPPy suggests? I don't think I would be able to view this for TS.

[NiHiLaNTh]

Yes it might be. All you can do is to try to debug ::Classify value for certain entities (player, ..., etc.). Although I am pretty sure that the first 3 constants are the same even for TS.

Also, it is worth mentioning that if you want to check whether a certain entity is a player, you can try using Ham_IsPlayer. But once again I am not sure if this method is present in TS.

[Bad_Bud]

I guess I should mention I found it useful to RegisterHam a Ham_Classify for all the entity classnames I care about, and always call the ExecuteHamB version.

[gabuch2]

Classify is used mostly for NPCs (monster_ entities)

What do you want to do?